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American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light / Daniel Freund.
LIBRA QC911 .F83 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freund, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunshine--Environmental aspects.
- Sunshine.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- United States.
- Climatotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Toward a history of natural light
- The darkening city, 1850-1920
- The dawn of scientific sunlight
- Sun cures
- Popular enthusiasms: eugenists, nudists, builders, modern mothers, and the sun cult
- Climate tourism and its alternative
- Epilogue: sunlight into the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226262819
- 0226262812
- OCLC:
- 755004155
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